Scene through Penn Square showing modern street lighting, circa 1940s. Note Chritmas decorations on the Watt and Shand building. Old City Hall is to the left.
Provenance
Gift of David Towle. See MG-747 Papers of Mayor Kendig Bare.
Penn Square stands in the heart of Lancaster, Pennsylvania as a monument to those who fought in the Civil War. It faces Watt and Shand Department Store.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Post Card size black and white scene of Penn Square. Pictured are trolleys, Model A's Watt and Shand, monument, large wreath on Watt and Shand and a sea of humanity.
Lancaster County Historical Society marker for the White Swan Hotel, formerly located on the southeast corner of Penn Square, Lancaster. Marker was mounted on exterior wall of Watt and Shand's Department Store.
